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John Thune: “States get a 90% reimbursement from the federal government…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Senator John Thune Advocates for Extending Tax Cuts and Medicaid Reforms

Published | Video Starts at 06:41

Now most of the increase in spending in Medicaid has been in what we call the expansion population. And that's the number of people out there for whom States get a 90% reimbursement from the federal government [for the expansion population]. And so that has grown dramatically. And what does that represent? It's a lot of able bodied adults, people who should be working, people who perhaps don't need to be … (06:41–06:46)

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Asserts that states receive a 90% federal reimbursement for Medicaid's expansion population.

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